Location: Nevada
Reason to Visit: The annual late summer festival of art and community, in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, attracts over 35,000 revelers. Colorful participants embrace the bare essence of life -- drinking and eating into most of the night. A photographers paradise, Burning Man is rich with bodypainted burners roaming the vast makeshift camp that lives for just a week.

Up Next: New York City Waterfalls

Location: New York
Reason to Visit: One of the most anticipated public space art exhibitions, four monumental scale waterfalls will be installed along the shores of Brooklyn, Manhattan and Governor Island. Guided water tours will be available of Olafur Eliasson's "New York City Waterfalls" this July through October.

Up Next: Oldtime Fiddlers' Festival

Location: Idaho
Reason to Visit: An annual event in the town of Weiser since 1953, the National Oldtime Fiddlers' Contest and Festival aims to showcase and preserve fiddle music by highlighting some of the best musicians in the world. Contests, various workshops and a parade round out the excitement.

Up Next: Contemporary Art Center of Virginia

Location: Virginia
Reason to Visit: Art enthusiasts, look no further! The Contemporary Art Center of Virginia is one of southeastern Virginia's leading art institutions. Regularly changing exhibitions feature painting, sculpture, photography, glass, video and other visual media from internationally acclaimed artists, as well as, artists that are nationally renown.

Up Next: Red Rocks Amphitheatre

Location: Colorado
Reason to Visit: Nestled in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains just east of Denver, Red Rocks Amphitheatre has been the site of numerous performances that live on in rock n' roll history from the Rolling Stones to the Grateful Dead, U2 to the Dave Matthews Band. Red Rocks is a geologically formed, open-air amphitheatre not duplicated anywhere in the world. The perfect natural acoustics and awe-inspiring scenery make performances at Red Rocks unforgettable.

Up Next: Bradenton Village Arts

Location: Florida
Reason to Visit: Bradenton Village of the Arts was is recognized by Art Calendar Magazine as one of '10 Great Towns for Working Artists' in the U.S. due to their emerging artists' community. Featuring more than 40 homes and bungalows that have been refurbished into colorful art galleries and studios, artists live, work and sell their creations from the comforts of their home.

Up Next: Great Lakes Seaway Trail

Location: New York
Reason to Visit: Famous 20th-centuryAmerican architect Frank Lloyd Wright's designs are still being built along the Great Lakes Seaway Trail. The Buffalo area of the 518-mile byway already had one of the largest concentrations of Wright-designed homes with six historic residences, including the only multi-structure residential complex Wright ever designed. The journey takes you to sophisticated cities, quaint villages, laid back fishing ports and dozens of family attractions.

Up Next: Daytona Beach International Festival

Location: Florida
Reason to Visit: The Daytona Beach International Festival presents an impressive variety of cultural events throughout the year, encompassing classical, choral, and chamber music as well as dance -- and biennially, the festival features the London Symphony Orchestra!

Up Next: Broad Contemporary Art Museum

Location: California
Reason to Visit: The new Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM) at LACMA is the latest development in the momentum of art and architecture that has consumed LA in the past three decades. With its three stories and 60,000 square feet of exhibit space, BCAM provides a new home for temporary exhibitions as well as works on loan from the Broad Foundation collection.

Up Next: J&R Vintage Auto Museum

Location: New Mexico
Reason to Visit: J&R Vintage Auto Museum houses over 60 fully restored vintage automobiles. Ten of these classic automobiles have competed in the Great American Race, including the 1995 winner, a 1917 Mormon. A unique feature of this vintage auto museum is the vehicles are all for sale!

Up Next: Solvang Village

Location: California
Reason to Visit: Solvang's rich heritage dates to 1911 when adventurous Danish-Americans established a settlement in central California to preserve and promote Danish architecture, culture, and culinary arts. Over one million visitors annually experience the authentic village still known as the ''Danish Capital of America.''

Up Next: Woodard Avenue

Location: Michigan
Reason to Visit: The birthplace of the automobile industry, Woodard Avenue offers a free driving audio tour with over 70 stops taking the visitor from Henry Ford's first owned factory -- to the homes of the auto Barons -- and the first factory to produce the Cadillac. Additionally, it hosts the world's largest one day car event where over a million people line the road to watch 40,000 classic automobiles cruise this famous strip.

Up Next: Torpedo Factory Art

Location: Virginia
Reason to Visit: From munitions to art ... Once an active munitions factory during World War II, the Torpedo Factory Art Center along the Potomac River waterfront in Alexandria, Virginia, is home to more than 165 visual artists who produce artwork in a wide variety of media. The artists invite visitors to join them in their studios to observe their creative process and have the opportunity to purchase their original works.

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